[Qgis-user] On the capabilities of QGIS

[Prvt Rsrchr | Jennifer Cluse]

G'day there, all,

QGIS just discovered. Oh. Wow.

Jennifer of Chermside Oz here, with two questions of a very generic 
nature.Sorry.

Before I commit a big slice of my remaining life-span trying to mistress 
GIS via Q, can I ask:

     1/ is Qgis in tandem with any known DB capable of providing me an 
accurate fine-grained result on the area of just the oceans, all of 
them, 360° round, that lie between the ancient Greeks Tropic zone, in my 
case either ±45° lat or ±50°. It's the granularity that I need.(2° grid 
good, tighter ideal.)

     2/ if Yes, what would be your rough assessment of the time it would 
take for this tech-head, in Mac since Syst 0.9 ancient crone, who is not 
fluent in any code or  language to pull out an answer, or

     3/ again if Yes, and faster, is anyone willing to give this poor 
pensioner (cue the strings & harps) a price on your digging out this data?

This because I believe that after 20 years of head scratching after the 
shock of first seeing the 200 year plot of CO2 in the atmosphere, and 
being an old radio tech recognizing a +ve feedback curve, think that 
with my 5th concept(four failures) I've gotten a winner that should stop 
ocean heating.

Reflecting enough incoming insolation back out to level the EEI, and 
perhaps even reversing the heat build up. All done with 98% reflective 
buoys launched at strategic points onto passing currents, so they stay 
mostly in the Tropic zones. I need a scientifically valid referable 
source of accurate areas data to calc how many bouys are needed. All CC 
& open source, so not much followup cash flow.

Hope someone can see a solution. Short of measuring my old 300mm 
inflatable home globe!
Google Earth has proved accurate to establish gross areas (+0.3%, my 
measuring, 10° x 10° grids.)
Need far better info, so as to not be dismissed out of hand.

Cheers

Jen

Ms Jennifer Cluse  35 Reinhold Cres  Chermside  Qld  4032  Australia UTC+10
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